Japan’s millennia-old ceramics tradition is firmly rooted in functionality. Pottery towns served people’s daily needs – plates, cups and vessels – or were steeped in the customs of tea ...

The 50th Izushi soba eating contest, in which participants compete to eat as many plates of buckwheat noodles as possible within a t･･･ ...

Watch for the HAI plates from Aug10 on Mitani Toki's online store on Rakuten. You can also find out more about Mitani Toki and their other excellent ceramic products by visiting their website. Read ...

At first glance, the delicate patterns on Eiko Maeda's porcelain bowls and plates look hand-painted ... her unique ceramics is an extraordinary Japanese technique called "nerikomi." ...

The plate is 5 inches across ... regions and factories where these goods were being made. Lots of this Japanese-produced porcelain is lumped together as “Nippon” or “Noritake,” but ...

Josiah Citrin and David Kinch made their first trips to Japan and fell in love with the ceramics at restaurants in Tokyo and Kyoto. “They wanted those plates. But the prices were so high ...

Gone are the generic, stackable white plates; and in their place are $1,000 Japanese lacquered bowls and one-of-a-kind ceramic pots from Mexico. But…[Carrie Bradshaw voice] one can’t help but ...

In Germany, smashing porcelain plates is a time-honored wedding custom ... For a wedding that combined Hawaiian Japanese and American Latin cultures, “we had custom sake cups made for each ...

Taken from the Japanese translation of 'fire bowl', a hibachi features a grill plate that sits on top of a ceramic (or sometimes wooden) bowl that's filled with burning charcoal. As the food being ...

Japan’s millennia-old ceramics tradition is firmly rooted in functionality. Pottery towns served people’s daily needs – plates, cups and vessels – or were steeped in the customs of tea ...